WATERFORD, Wis. (CBS 58) — Dating back to 776 B.C., the first Olympic games included the event of discus throwing, where athletes attempt to throw a weight the farthest distance. Now, the track and ...

On the men’s side of discus, sophomore Chad Hendricks was the first Tiger to compete on the day. Hendricks recorded a toss of ...

Will Neumann had already left the Tiger Athletic Complex before he had realized the feat he had accomplished Thursday night.

April 15 (Reuters) - Performance-enhancing drugs have long been the scourge of athletics field events but now some observers are claiming "weather doping" was behind a slew of discus records at a ...

Having competed against each other with some of the biggest prizes in discus on the line, Matt Denny and Lawrence Okoye are ...

PORTLAND, Oregon — While you watch your favorite athletes go for gold, consider how all that time, distance, and height is achieved by balancing the same forces all of us mere mortals experience every ...

COLONIE – Seeking shelter from the rain under a tree last Friday at a rain-soaked Shenendehowa High School, Colonie senior discus thrower Shantavia Craft had no idea what she was about to accomplish.

SAINT-DENIS, France — Don't look now, but Jamaica, that Caribbean island known for producing elite sprinters such as Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, is now a field-event power. Former ...

On June 6, 1986, Juergen Schult set the world discus record at a meet in East Germany, reaching 74.08 meters. Nearly three months later, Yuriy Sedykh did the same for the hammer throw, setting the new ...

Oregon commit Jaslene Massey won Nike Indoor Nationals with a California state record shot put and followed it with the No. 2 ...